Lord Byron Quotes
Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain.
Quotes to Explore
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When you have children love is always there in the best form.
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People don't usually compliment your character.
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Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.
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You know you're getting fat when you step on the dog's tail and he dies.
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True friends will pick you up when you fall. The bad friends will have been the one who made you fall in the first place.
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Almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon.
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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
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When asked what the stock market will do: It will fluctuate.
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Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.
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If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an ill-timed effort to prove that nothing could be more humiliating to a rational creature than being required to encourage the development of a base conditional reflex by stopping at a red light when there was not an earthly soul around, heeled or wheeled. He was more circumspect the next time, and passed.
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It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.
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I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.
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Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
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After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be some real good having power to communicate itself, which would affect the mind singly, to the exclusion of all else: whether, in fact, there might be anything of which the discovery and attainment would enable me to enjoy continuous, supreme, and unending happiness.
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We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.
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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain.
